Support for ironing-boards



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W. E. BERRY.

SUPPORT FOR IRONING BOARDS,

No. 400,290. Patented-Mar. 26, 1889'.

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IVILLIAIWI E. BERRY, ()F IVILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT FOR lRONlNG-BOARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,290, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed AprillB, 1888- Serial No. 270,807. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. BERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Villiamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Ironing-Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the present invention. Fig. 2 is a like view show ing how the invention is adapted for use.

This invention is an improvement adapted for use in connection with ironing-boards of any ordinary description; and the novelty consists in the construction of the several parts and in their combination together as a Whole, all as will now be more fully set forth and described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes a chair of any ordinary kind, and on this is placed, as in position for use, the ironingboard support. This support consists of top piece, B, straight-edged on the upper side, and which has pivotally attached to each of its ends the swing catch-arm C. These are hookshaped at their ends 0, and respectively fitted in the construct-ion now shown in the slots b in the ends of said top piece, B, and held by merely turning it round. At its lower end is pivotally attached the foot piece or brace E by passing the end of the shaft through said piece in the hole 6. It is confined to the footpiece by the pin (1, which passes through it below the piece E. Thus said piece has any desired revolving motion on the end of the shaft.

As thus made, this support for an ironingg5 board is applied to use by catching the hooked ends 0 of the arms 0 under the edge of the chair on opposite sides, and then while the device is held upright the shaft D is turned round, so as to press the foot piece or brace down upon the chair-seat. lVhen this has been fully accomplished, the support will be firmly and rigidly secured in a vertical position. The top of the piece B, being horizontal, will afford a convenient place to rest one end of the ironing-board upon, While the other rests upon a table, F, or upon a similar support attached to another chair or any other convenient support. The foot-piece should preferably be placed at right angles with the chair-back.

The device as thus placed on the chair will be a very stable support for one end of the ironing-board, because as applied to the chair it will come so nearly centrally between the front and rear legs as to be squarely supported by them.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. An ironing-board support consisting of a top piece having a hooked arm pivotally secured ateach end and a central brace adapted to be raised or lowered, substantially as described.

2. The ironing table support herein described, consisting of-the top piece, B, straightedged on its upper side, the hooked arms (1, pivotally attached at its ends, the shaft I), movable up and down in said top piece, and the brace E, pivotally attached to its end, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' XVIIJIIIAH E. BERRY.

\Vitnesscs:

JLINTON LLOYD, THOMAS W. LLOYD. 

